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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 13547 times as history)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,052,420 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11829 times as history)
avg rating 4.04 — 415,488 ratings — published 1997
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8404 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 245,808 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7857 times as history)
avg rating 4.00 — 691,239 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7319 times as history)
avg rating 4.09 — 231,968 ratings — published 2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 6671 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 390,177 ratings — published 2003
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
by (shelved 6224 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 65,709 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6049 times as history)
avg rating 4.21 — 135,164 ratings — published 1960
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6049 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,976 ratings — published 2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5359 times as history)
avg rating 4.28 — 187,866 ratings — published 2005
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5323 times as history)
avg rating 4.25 — 93,637 ratings — published 1970
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5265 times as history)
avg rating 4.38 — 949,267 ratings — published 2010
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 5251 times as history)
avg rating 4.15 — 361,296 ratings — published 2017
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4886 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 77,306 ratings — published 1962
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4769 times as history)
avg rating 4.08 — 362,963 ratings — published 2001
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4621 times as history)
avg rating 3.88 — 203,614 ratings — published 2011
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4564 times as history)
avg rating 4.06 — 74,570 ratings — published 2004
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4484 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 183,011 ratings — published 2004
Silk Roads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4104 times as history)
avg rating 4.18 — 40,291 ratings — published 2015
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4099 times as history)
avg rating 4.47 — 103,604 ratings — published 2010
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3932 times as history)
avg rating 4.12 — 146,285 ratings — published 2015
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3854 times as history)
avg rating 4.17 — 60,419 ratings — published 1998
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3851 times as history)
avg rating 4.05 — 41,382 ratings — published 1978
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3809 times as history)
avg rating 4.12 — 743,177 ratings — published 2010
The Histories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3777 times as history)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,884 ratings — published -430
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 3600 times as history)
avg rating 3.97 — 69,842 ratings — published 1995
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3582 times as history)
avg rating 4.21 — 254,267 ratings — published 2015
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3505 times as history)
avg rating 3.84 — 117,531 ratings — published 1998
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3441 times as history)
avg rating 3.75 — 72,155 ratings — published 2002
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3365 times as history)
avg rating 4.30 — 118,719 ratings — published 2020
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3258 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,899 ratings — published 1997
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3190 times as history)
avg rating 4.15 — 151,260 ratings — published 2016
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3138 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 71,715 ratings — published 2004
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 3104 times as history)
avg rating 4.43 — 127,826 ratings — published 1992
Hiroshima (Paperback)
by (shelved 3046 times as history)
avg rating 4.03 — 81,371 ratings — published 1946
History of the Peloponnesian War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2989 times as history)
avg rating 3.93 — 38,296 ratings — published -411
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2934 times as history)
avg rating 4.44 — 135,137 ratings — published 1959
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2917 times as history)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,639 ratings — published 2011
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2869 times as history)
avg rating 4.53 — 140,838 ratings — published 2020
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2869 times as history)
avg rating 4.16 — 109,379 ratings — published 2000
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2855 times as history)
avg rating 3.96 — 497,592 ratings — published -400
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2821 times as history)
avg rating 4.46 — 108,910 ratings — published 2018
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2817 times as history)
avg rating 4.39 — 321,823 ratings — published 2013
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2732 times as history)
avg rating 3.89 — 53,111 ratings — published 2006
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2731 times as history)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,781 ratings — published 1995
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 2649 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 62,991 ratings — published 1996
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 2621 times as history)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,615 ratings — published 2003
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2612 times as history)
avg rating 3.99 — 94,403 ratings — published 2010
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2581 times as history)
avg rating 4.20 — 114,884 ratings — published 2023
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2573 times as history)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,726 ratings — published 1776
“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
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“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Survivor
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